All posts tagged "Hampton NH"
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22.5K1ConnecticutThe History of Epidemics in New England
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
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8.2K1MassachusettsHow New England Invented Grandparents
If you wanted to know your grandparents or grandchildren back in the 17th and 18th centuries, your best bet was to live...
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7.8K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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13.9K5New HampshireFame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
In 1763, Jonathan Moulton of Hampton, N.H. took his prize oxen north to Portsmouth, N.H. The impressive animal, weighing 1,400 pounds, was...
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9.5K7Connecticut6 New Deal Projects Still in Use
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....
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32.1K3New HampshireJane Pierce, New Hampshire’s Unlikely First Lady
In January of 1856, a radical physician from Massachusetts, Charles Robinson, won election as governor of Kansas. President Franklin Pierce declared him...
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